Frederick Theodore Haneman (circa 1863-after 1940) was a German-American physician
and a prolific author and editor of both medical and general-interest papers and articles.

According to the 1930 U.S. Census, Haneman was born in Prussia and came to the United
States in 1888; he and his wife Laura, born in New York circa 1874, settled in New
Jersey. Their surname is spelt "Hanemon" in the 1910 census. According to Haneman's
own biographical statement, written in the third person and included in the collection,
he spent "over 30 years on the editorial staff of Funk and Wagnalls Company as a writer
for the Literary Digest, the several editions of the Standard Dictionary, the Jewish
and Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedias, etc. He also was a collaborator to the latest edition
of the International Encyclopedia, the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem,
etc. For over ten years he was the editor of a well-known medical journal. During
the war he was attached to the Belgian Relief...He is especially interested in sanitation
and hygiene, education, history, and political science."

Correspondence consists almost entirely of letters from Haneman's wife Laura
during a trip to Europe in 1913; some were sent from aboard ship, others from various
locations in Europe. The majority of the letters are in German; typed transcripts,
also in
German and of unknown origin, are present for some of the letters. There is also
one letter ro "My dear Son"
from "Mother"; internal evidence suggests that the letter is from Laura Haneman
to their son Vincent.

Medical material contains clippings and handwritten notes on various remedies
for everything from asthma to impotence, and a set of four published papers on
the medical and therapeutic
uses of radium.

Memorabilia consists of a handwritten document, in German,
regarding a coin collection; loose pages from a book entitled
Erforschung der Erdrinde (labeled in English, "History of the Discovery of the
Earth's Surface"), and three small diaries or daybooks with various sorts of material
laid in. Volume 1
(volume numbers are not original but were assigned for identification purposes)
includes 20 or so printed
and hand-colored pages of coats of arms for various German cities.

Writings, most in English and most handwritten, consist of Haneman's own
biographical statement and drafts of various articles and essays. Most were likely
written for one of the
encyclopedias to which he was a contributor. Topics include radium, sunbathing,
alcohol, German history,
and politics. Of particular interest is a letter to the editor of the New York
Times, annotated as
"unpublished," on "Causes of the European War" written in August 1914, less than
a month after the outbreak
of World War I.

Coin collection documentation ("Münzen = Sammlung") undated
- in German; includes hand-drawn family trees of various royal families

Box 1

History of discovery of Earth's surface undated
- pages from a facsimile of a 17th century book, Erforschung der Erdrinde [Exploration of the Earth's crust] as well as a few interesting modern book pages
with transparent overlays

Box 1

[Volume 1] undated
- handwritten quotations in German, English, Latin, Greek; laid in are 20 or so printed
hand-colored pages of coats of arms for various German cities

History of the Secret Tribunal... undated
- translation into English of the first 14 or so pages of Histoire Du Tribunal Secret D'après Les Loix Et Les Constitutions De L'empire Germanique by Jean Nicolas Etienne de Bock; typescript